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What does HRESULT 0x8898009B (MILERR_QPC_TIME_WENT_BACKWARD) mean?

 
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MILERR_QPC_TIME_WENT_BACKWARD

MILERR_QPC_TIME_WENT_BACKWARD is a Windows Media Integration Layer (MIL) HRESULT. It indicates that the high-resolution timing value used by MIL moved backward, making timing-based rendering calculations unreliable.

Diagnostic discriminator: Capture consecutive QPC values together with CPU, virtualization, firmware, and power context. A negative delta reproduced before rendering work begins is a timing-source anomaly, not a shader or geometry failure.

What to check for MILERR_QPC_TIME_WENT_BACKWARD

  • Record CPU, power-management, virtualization, and timing context when the anomaly occurs.
  • Avoid assuming that elapsed time is always positive without guarding timing calculations.
  • Check system firmware and virtualization settings if the error repeats on the same machine.

Microsoft documentation about WPF hardware-accelerated rendering


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